Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-01-04

  1. Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”? minimaxir.com - 374 comments 651 points
  2. SpaceSim pavelsevecek.github.io - 39 comments 278 points
  3. BlogScroll – An open directory of personal sites and blogs blogscroll.com - 77 comments 271 points
  4. In Memoriam: Noah Gibbs blog.schwad.org - 37 comments 238 points
  5. Why Canada Should Join the EU www.economist.com - 546 comments 226 points
  6. I’m quitting the Washington Post anntelnaes.substack.com - 120 comments 213 points
  7. VoxelSpace: Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 lines of code - 2020 github.com - 49 comments 189 points
  8. The Evolution of SRE at Google www.usenix.org - 79 comments 182 points
  9. Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app pimosa.app - 56 comments 178 points
  10. What we learned copying all the best code assistants blog.val.town - 47 comments 168 points
  11. Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago - 2024 www.science.org - 78 comments 167 points
  12. UK ICO response to Google’s policy change on device fingerprinting ico.org.uk - 92 comments 157 points
  13. Court strikes down US net neutrality rules www.bbc.com - 132 comments 153 points
  14. Yemeni Coffee Shops in Texas www.texasmonthly.com - 105 comments 146 points
  15. Mandelbrot deep zoom theory and practice - 2021 mathr.co.uk - 45 comments 142 points
  16. OnlyFangs has made ‘World of Warcraft’ into Twitch’s best soap opera www.rollingstone.com - 85 comments 124 points
  17. A path to O1 open source arxiv.org - 76 comments 124 points
  18. System76 built the fastest Windows Arm PC www.jeffgeerling.com - 57 comments 123 points
  19. Perplexity got ads twitter.com - 154 comments 120 points
  20. B-Trees: More Than I Thought I’d Want to Know benjamincongdon.me - 3 comments 114 points
  21. F-Droid Fake Signer PoC github.com - 23 comments 110 points
  22. Zebrafish protein unlocks dormant genes for heart repair www.hubrecht.eu - 48 comments 108 points
  23. Conscious unbossing – 52% of GenZ professionals don’t want to be middle managers www.robertwalters.co.uk - 95 comments 93 points
  24. Apple auto-opts everyone into having their photos analyzed by AI for landmarks www.theregister.com - 51 comments 88 points
  25. What Is To Be Done? The book that helped spark the Russian Revolution onepercentrule.substack.com - 110 comments 76 points
  26. A marriage of solar energy and farming www.ksjd.org - 50 comments 74 points
  27. Covid 5 years later: Learning from a pandemic many are forgetting www.science.org - 145 comments 73 points
  28. China reduced sulphur dioxide emissions by more than two-thirds in past 15 years ourworldindata.org - 57 comments 73 points
  29. Why Canada should join the EU www.economist.com - 30 comments 70 points
  30. Surveillance and the suppression of civil society in Serbia www.amnesty.org - 43 comments 68 points